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Unlocking the power of big data within the early design phase of the new product development process
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This study investigates how to exploit big data to increase knowledge in the early design phase within new product development through an industrial application. There are limited research and a scarcity of empirical studies ... -
Unlocking the whole of soft power: a quantum international relations analysis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Soft power is one of most applied, yet nebulous, concepts in social science. In this paper, we show that it is not soft power per se that is of issue here, but rather the Newtonian parameters through which the concept has ... -
Unpacking physically active learning in education: a movement didaktikk approach in teaching?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This paper explores teachers’ educational values and how they shape their judgements about physically active learning (PAL). Twenty one teachers from four primary schools in Norway participated in focus groups. By ... -
Unreined Students or Not: Modes of Freedom in a Project-Based Software Engineering Course
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Software engineering courses include practical and theoretical elements that give many options for pedagogical combinations among them. In this paper, we report on two different pedagogical approaches for an undergraduate, ... -
Unveiling the strong interaction among hadrons at the LHC
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)One of the key challenges for nuclear physics today is to understand from first principles the effective interaction between hadrons with different quark content. First successes have been achieved using techniques that ... -
The unwanted free rider: Covid-19
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Winter holidays in the European Alps early 2020 led to unexpected challenges for the Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Norway and Sweden), since many travellers brought home a free rider virus, Covid-19. In this study a ... -
Upcycling med gjenbrukstekstiler: Bærekraftig didaktikk i kunst og håndverksfaget
(Master thesis, 2017)Masterstudiet har for meg vært en lang indre reise, både skapende og mentalt. Jeg har brodert med mange små sting på små lapper av gjenbrukstekstiler. Stingene som holder lappene sammen er jevne og ... -
Update and guidance on management of myopia. European Society of Ophthalmology in cooperation with International Myopia Institute
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The prevalence of myopia is increasing extensively worldwide. The number of people with myopia in 2020 is predicted to be 2.6 billion globally, which is expected to rise up to 4.9 billion by 2050, unless preventive actions ... -
Upgrade of the ALICE central barrel tracking detectors: ITS and TPC
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)The ALICE Collaboration will undertake a major upgrade of the detector apparatus during the second LHC Long Shutdown LS2 (2019–2020) in view of the Runs 3 and 4 (2021–2029). The objective of the upgrade is two-fold: i) an ... -
Uploading, downloading and uploading again - concepts for policy integration in education research
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)This article focuses on Nordic education policy research, investigating the connections between international and national education policy developments and the consequences of these for curriculum and assessment. Drawing ... -
Urban Living Lab as a Circular Economy Ecosystem: Advancing Environmental Sustainability through Economic Value, Material, and Knowledge Flows
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Environmental sustainability is an increasingly relevant aspect of urban living labs. The objective of this study is to examine an urban living lab through ecosystem approach lenses and reveal the actor activities and ... -
Urban mobility at sea and on waterways in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This paper gives an overview of current urban mobility projects in Norway and discusses autonomous short- distance ferries. Five projects are presented, with mobility concepts and timelines. A discussion is given regarding ... -
Uro og uklarhet : en kvalitativ studie av sykepleieres erfaringer med delirium i møte med gamle med brudd
(Master thesis, 2009)Fokus for dette studiet er å beskrive sykepleiepraksis overfor gamle pasienter med brudd som står i fare for eller som har utviklet tilstanden delirium. Delirium er en hyppig forekommende tilstand hos gamle som innlegges ... -
Use and intensity of electronic invoices in firms: The example of Sweden
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Electronic (e−) invoices potentially enhance environmental sustainability in several stages from production of paper to its usage. This study investigates empirically to what extent a set of firm characteristics and external ... -
Use and underuse of mobility aids in individuals with visual impairment: a cross-sectional study of a Norwegian sample
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Purpose: To examine the use and underuse of mobility aids in individuals with visual impairment. Methods: A telephone survey including a probability sample of 736 adults who were members of the Norwegian Association of ... -
Use of a disposable sheath system for flexible sigmoidoscopy in decentralized colorectal cancer screening
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2002)Background and Study Aims: To prevent transmission of infectious agents and to reduce instrument reprocessing time, the use of disposable sheath systems instead of conventionally reprocessed endoscopes has been promoted ... -
Use of anal gland secretion to distinguish the two beaver species Castor canadensis and C. fiber
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 1999)Introduced North American beavers Castor canadensis pose a potential threat to the continuing recovery of Eurasian beaver C. fiber populations in several European countries. For management purposes, it is necessary to be ... -
Use of dawn and dusk sight observations to determine colony size and family composition in Eurasian beaver Castor fiber
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2006)The methods used to determine family composition and colony size in Eurasian beaver Castor fiber Linnaeus, 1758 are often poorly described in published reports. Here we show how repeated counts of colony size in a random ... -
Use of environmental DNA to detect the myxozoan endoparasite Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae in large Norwegian lakes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Environmental DNA (eDNA) is an increasingly used noninvasive and cost-effective method for species detections in surveillance studies. The myxozoan endoparasite Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae is the causative agent of ... -
Use of evidential reasoning for eliciting bayesian subjective probabilities in human reliability analysis: A maritime case
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Modelling the interdependencies among the factors influencing human error (e.g. the common performance conditions (CPCs) in Cognitive Reliability Error Analysis Method (CREAM)) stimulates the use of Bayesian Networks (BNs) ...